India and Dialectics of Change between Colonial and Post-colonial Eras: Economic and Cultural Perspectives

Abstract

India as post-colonial country is of growing concern in the world due to several criteria such as its economic development and others despite the fact that it was colonized around two centuries by the British Empire. This dissertation examines how India changed during the colonial and the post-colonial periods in both economy and culture. The main argument of this study is that radical changes have occurred in India both economically and culturally during colonialism and after its demise. This dissertation meets this research aims through an extensive study of relevant literature. This research produces a number of key findings: recent research and surveys confirm a significant development of India in different fields such as economic growth, cultural upheavals and social structure during both the colonial era and more in the post-colonial one. The main conclusions drawn from this research are: first, colonialism reforms were efficient in some fields where we noticed a hopeful development. Second, they were deficient because they fail to embrace a holistic change instead it opted to make things more complicated.